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Carl Perkins : the king of rockabilly
\"The definitive and fascinating biography of the musical trailblazer who wrote the classic \"Blue Suede Shoes\" and was the influence behind countless other legendary hits, a rock and roll legend in his own right, and the original rockabilly cat--Carl Perkins\"-- Inside jacket.
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Razabilly
Vocals tinged with pain and desperation. The deep thuds of an upright bass. Women with short bangs and men in cuffed jeans. These elements and others are the unmistakable signatures of rockabilly, a musical genre normally associated with white male musicians of the 1950s. But in Los Angeles today, rockabilly's primary producers and consumers are Latinos and Latinas. Why are these Razabillies partaking in a visibly un-Latino subculture that's thought of as a white person's fixation everywhere else?As a Los Angeles Rockabilly insider, Nicholas F. Centino is the right person to answer this question. Pairing a decade of participant observation with interviews and historical research, Centino explores the reasons behind a Rockabilly renaissance in 1990s Los Angeles and demonstrates how, as a form of working-class leisure, this scene provides Razabillies with spaces of respite and conviviality within the alienating landscape of the urban metropolis. A nuanced account revealing how and why Los Angeles Latinas/os have turned to and transformed the music and aesthetic style of 1950s rockabilly, Razabilly offers rare insight into this musical subculture, its place in rock and roll history, and its passionate practitioners.
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Psychobilly
\"I got 1-2-3-4 psychobilly DNA\"--Norm and the Nightmarez Call it punk rockabilly with science-fiction horror lyrics.The outsider musical genre known as psychobilly, which began in 1980s Britain, fuses punk, heavy metal, new wave, and shock rock with carnivalesque elements.
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The wild world of Hasil \Haze\ Adkins : one man band and inventor of the hunch
Imagine Elvis in Sid Vicious' body with a little Frank Sinatra thrown in, and you have Hasil Adkins, the originator of psychobilly and star of this deranged, shot-on-video documentary. Chronicling 56-year-old Hasil's boozing, womanizing and law-breaking, audiences are treated to some surreal jaw-dropping antics and raucous, homegrown rock'n'roll. Viewers will delight in the various ancedotes of paranoia as related by cronies, acquaintances and authorities. Many local personalities have been captured in Appalshop films, but Hasil Adkins may take the cake as the absolute wildest, biggest, impossible-to-tame personality of them all.
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PUNKS, GOD, AND URBANE COWBOYS
In the wee hours of November 22, 1976, Jerry Lee Lewis drove his Lincoln Continental to the home of Elvis Presley. Lewis had been drinking at the Vapors, a club where he often played impromptu shows, and where a sheriff had just presented him with a .38 caliber derringer pistol. The loaded gun was on the dashboard when Lewis cracked a window trying to throw an empty champagne bottle to the side of the road. Then he crashed into the gates of Graceland. “He was out of his mind,” said Harold Loyd, who was guarding the entrance. “Get on the
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HARD-CORE TROUBADOURS
Emmylou Harris’s tour bus pulled into a truck stop near Oklahoma City. “Hey,” said Harris to Tony Brown, her keyboard player, “go to the jukebox and play [George Jones’s] ‘He Stopped Loving Her Today.’ It’s going to kill you!” Touring with the Hot Band was a musical education for Brown, who had never listened to popular music as a kid in North Carolina because he played in his preacher father’s family gospel group. Gospel music won Brown an audience with Elvis Presley, and the Lord blessed him with a job playing keyboards in the King’s band.
“He was Elvis the
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The Appearance of the Electric Bass Guitar: A Rockabilly Perspective
Brewer analyzes in the context of late 1950s rockabilly. When rockabilly first emerged in the middle of the 1950s, it was anchored by the acoustic bass, an instrument that was a holdover from the bluegrass and string-band styles that had influenced many of the form's of early practitioners. He also analyzes the moment at which rockabilly musicians changed over to the electric bass, a moment that coincided with rockabilly's musical decline.
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Razabilly Boogie
Los Angeles is the home to one of the largest and most vibrant scenes for rockabilly enthusiasts in the world. Since the turn of this century, the Los Angeles rockabilly scene has transformed to meet the desires of the Chicana/os and Latina/os who now make up the scene’s primary producers and consumers. Drawing on their own cultural genealogies, Los Angeles Chicana/os and Latina/os have not only claimed the scene for themselves, but have also rewrote themselves into the history of Los Angeles, and rewrote Los Angeles into the history of rock & roll.
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Let’s All Get Dixie Fried
The cool, alienated outsider was part of the zeitgeist in the United States in the 1950s. The white hipster borrowed his cool style from black masculinity, and Jack Kerouac drew on his own experiences as a hipster in the late forties to chronicle what came to be called the Beat Generation. His fictional characters inOn the Road, Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, were based on himself and his close friend Neal Cassady. He wroteOn the Roadin 1951, but it wasn’t published until 1957, too late to influence the early development of the outsider image; however, movies were
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